one of my favorite things about hometown cha cha cha is them going against the ‘you can only love others if u love yourself’ and taking a different trajectory and telling us that 'we are capable of loving people even when we are hurting inside and we can still work on ourselves while loving that person.’ It makes me feel so nice, because yes, i dont have alot of love for myself but that doesnt mean i am uncapable of giving love to others.
Those pills you used to swallow like candy, I can’t recall, did you have a prescription for those? Or how about drinking on duty? Yeah, we have some real fun stories about that. One call to Tom at the Post and you’re done, buddy. You’re gone. Oh, and please, don’t give me that dead daughter sob story, ‘cause I just don’t care.
“…Hollywood gangster pictures ‘speak of daily life and manage to raise to a dramatic level a banknote on which our attention is riveted, a table with a revolver on it, a bottle that on occassion becomes a weapon…’”
“…[F]ilm noir is sometimes told from the point of view of criminals who elicit our sympathy. Even when the central character is nominally on the right side of the law, he or she is often a corrupt cop, a morally ambiguous private eye, or a fugitive wrongfully accused of crime.”
“At almost every level… film noir inverts formulas… In place of stalwart heroes, it gives us ‘not particularly handsome’ leading men who, before the obligatory happy ending, suffer ‘appalling beatings.’ In place of virginal or domesticated heroines, it presents us with femme fatales, the modern-day descendents of Sade’s Juliette, who contribute to ’an eroticization of violence.’”
dean was created as a character with tattoos but they didn’t have the budget…he wore jewelry in the first seasons but stopped bc it got in the way of jensen’s stunts…literally what we is see is not what is.
someone's back
